Ben 🇺🇦

Spatchcocked a turkey for the first time today. Typically we roast it whole but this is a new experiment!

Obama’s pathetic response to Crimea invasion & little green men in Donbas. Trump impeachment 1.0. Biden refusal to provide all weapons and kit available immediately in 2021/22 out of fear of escalation. Americans try to think farther back than last election cycle challenge: impossible

As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.

Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.

The Lukashenko of NATO

The only other thing I know about Tiago Splitter is that he sets a mean pick

oh great so an unvetted and completely unqualified person with no appropriate security clearance, unconfirmed by Congress to be a diplomat, is having these conversations to extort an ally of the United States. Witkoff is a threat to national security. He’s one step removed from Hanssen or Ames.

keeping it 💯 with y’all, speaking from a place of immense white collar desk job computer monkey WFH privilege, I am getting almost nothing done at work during this shortened week

Neoliberalism: privatize profits and socialize losses

My wife’s stepdad is a big F1 guy and has been for like 30 years. We were texting about Mick joining RLL yesterday. He then texted me 12 hours later to say he was still thinking about it and it would definitely get him to tune into more IndyCar events next season. An interesting data point!

Dem strategist in bio lmao

Ukraine Faces an Unbearable Choice Exhausted by over three years of Russian attacks, Ukrainians are increasingly ready to accept unfair political compromises and harsh territorial concessions to end the war. Yet it’s far from clear tha...

It’s refreshing to see a leftist publication platform an actual Ukrainian voice and include the critical context of the last 12+ years of Ukrainian history.

jacobin.com/2025/11/ukra...

On one side of my family we have zero knowledge of our lineage before my grandpa. There was just nobody left to ask. He wasn’t even sure if his last name was real or made up. And there’s a story like this in almost every Ukrainian household.

Today is Holodomor Remembrance Day

I won’t make it but I’m going to try

Inshallah

He has the car. Can be finish the job? I’m starting to believe

It’s Lando’s title to lose!

Lance

this is the correct take

Peace without justice is capitulation and betrayal

we’re being led by kleptocratic ghouls who view everything as zero sum. the United States is a racket for rich people to enrich themselves further. It is grotesque.

Country of morally bankrupt selfish self centered clowns

The Ashes starts tonight!! 🏏

“Here it is important to remember that neither the Congress nor the Supreme Court owns the Constitution. Nor, for that matter, does the president. As much as it may often seem otherwise, we are still the authors of our own fates.”

Today is another great reminder that we need to launch the senate straight into the sun. Or abolish it. Or make it a ceremonial House of Lords

What sticks out to me about this clip is that I think Shapiro still only has a critique about how the mass deportation campaign is covered by the media, and not by the substance of its sheer volume and depth of cruelty.

The United States of Blood for Oil

Agreed this sounds grim. If they go bust, is there any chance we get to 33 for the 500?

mandatory weekly reading for IndyCar news! If you only have time for one newsletter and one podcast per week: this and Trackside

So the total amount of drones they launched in 2023 is equivalent to one night in 2025

do not like the ny giants wearing white at home